Join Keysight at ECOC 2017

Connect with our experts at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2017, in Gothenburg from 17-21st September.

We are delighted to invite you to visit our booth (Hall 3, stand 239) at the exhibition which takes place from the 18-20th September. Here you can meet with our Keysight experts who will be showcasing the latest solutions for optical communications, networking, cloud and IT infrastructure.

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Listed below are our latest solutions that Keysight Technologies will be demonstrating during the ECOC exhibition. Please join us on our stand to see these solutions and discuss with our experts.

400G line rate native QSFP-DD interface test system
With the emerging PAM4 based electrical interface for 400Gigabit Ethernet and the Data Center focused QSFP-DD form factor, the industry is embarking on a new testing cycle to prove out & to adopt these new technologies. The Ixia’s QSFP-DD 400GE test system, compliant with the IEEE 802.3bs KP4 Forward Error Correction (FEC), generates wire rate traffic with unique cyclic redundancy check (CRC), checksum, and timestamp on every packet. This is 595,238,092 packets per second for minimum Ethernet frame size of 64 bytes. While generating traffic, the system is able to receive and capture data for real-time filtering and analysis. Additional visibility includes real-time, per Receive PCS lane status and Pre & Post FEC error monitoring to ensure Media Access Controller (MAC) level error-free operations. This flexible, FPGA-based platform will continue to adapt as the IEEE standard progresses towards ratification.

PAM-4 Simulation for analyzing trade-offs for High-Speed Digital Links
The ADS channel simulation enables a comparison of PAM-4 versus NRZ technology. This example demonstrates the concept of price vs performance in PCB design. Cheaper PCB materials with more loss and no-backdrilling of vias are more likely to exhibit resonances at higher frequencies. This channel may not support NRZ to 56Gbps, but will support PAM-4 more easily, assuming that the resonances are higher in frequency than the main spectral content of the PAM-4 signal. For the system designer attempting to compare NRZ to PAM-4 trade-offs, an immediate need exists to use PAM-4 IBIS-AMI models from SerDes vendors within their Channel Simulation. Through Keysight Technologies' continuing leadership in the IBIS Open Forum, Keysight EEsof EDA now offers support for the new IBIS v6.1 specification. Developed in collaboration with the industry's leading PAM-4 SerDes IC vendors, the ADS Channel Simulator provides a trusted bit-by-bit simulation engine for PAM-4

Modular and compact 400G coherent component and system test
The M8290A is the new member to Keysight’s OMA portfolio adding a 92 GSa/s OMA and Digitizer to the AXIe platform, where it can be easily combined with high-speed AWG’s in a compact, easy-to-setup, easy-to-maintain and easy-to-integrate stimulus-response test system. Together with the well-established GUI for measuring EVM and troubleshooting coherent modulation signals as well as additional application-specific software add-on’s for testing ICR or ACO modules, this is the most complete and cost-effective single-vendor test platform for upcoming 400G components, modules and systems.